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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






2. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






3. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






4. Significant point or event in the project






5. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






6. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






7. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






8. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






9. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






10. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






11. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






12. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






13. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






14. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






15. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






16. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






17. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






18. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






19. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






20. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






21. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






22. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






23. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






24. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






25. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






26. Graphic display of schedule related information.






27. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






28. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






29. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






30. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






31. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






32. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






33. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






34. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






35. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






36. Processes that organize and manage the project team






37. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






38. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






39. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






40. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






41. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






42. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






43. Budgeted cost of work performed






44. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






45. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






46. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






47. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






48. Subdivision of a phase






49. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






50. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result